My name is Sigi Rumpfhuber. I am a skier, guide, teacher and business professional.

Growing up as a ski racer has given me a solid skiing foundation and technique. Moving on snow is what I've done all my life. I was lucky to be able to combine my skiing passion with a formal business education.

Exploration is what drives me. Traveling to unknown places, searching personal limits, and exploring our known backyards anew. Bringing new things to life is one of the essences of life to me.

My ski guide service focuses on exploration and skill-building, to provide a safe and fun mountain experience for you.

As a business professional, I am the founder and owner of the ORIGINAL+ ski brand, EXOLITE business consulting, and the KANTE SCHARF ski service center in Salzburg.

With everything I do, I try to be resourceful, diligent and integrative.

I'm a strong believer that our actions should be based on our personal values. There's typically no shortcuts in life. Honor the process, do good work daily, weekly, annually and over a lifetime.

"I have had the pleasure of working with Sigi over the last 5 years. Sigi is a goal oriented manager and natural leader. He has a broad knowledge of skiing and combines that knowledge with incredible passion for winter sports."

Projects

2013 Eiger (Warren Miller)

In March 2013, Warren Miller invited Chris Davenport and me to climb and ski Eiger in Switzerland. Conditions were very dangerous, and we had no chance to summit. We attempted to climb the West Face a few times, and climbed Rotstock, but the upper half of the mountain was completely wind loaded with huge avalanche danger. We were not bummed for long, as the mountain is in close proximity to my home and will be there for another while. I can come back, and actually plan to do so.

I think the film came out great, as it shows the reality of life in the mountains, and that it is really to make the best out of what you get.

Partners

Exploration is a major drive to me. Traveling to unknown places, searching personal limits, and exploring our known backyards anew.

My guide service focuses on exploration and skill-building. The exploration offerings will bring you to remote wilderness areas around the world, such as Alaska and Iceland. The skill-building courses are typically shorter, focused and take place in the Alps, such as the Hohe Tauern Range in Austria, or Italy's Dolomites.

Both programs will feed each other, and most of my the guests that come to Alaska or Iceland will typically already have experienced some skill-building courses before. I enjoy teaching people in the mountains, and providing the knowledge for a better and safer mountain experience.

ORIGINAL+ is my new ski company. We offer and produce functionally customized skis - the only skis you will ever need as we guarantee a perfect fit and strive for nothing less than the perfect ski experience.

We build our skis in a long tradition of race-room technology, and with people in our team that bring decades of "big-company" experience, and that have built skis for Olympic Champions. Our functional customization is based on ORIGO, our proprietary piece of software, and the algorithm that calculates your individual ski flex and characteristic.

We sell all of that in a direct-to-consumer model, so only via our factory store and the company website. This allows us to cut out all middle-men, and the extremely high mark-ups and margins of retailers. All of that allows us to offer you a functionally customized ski at the price level of high-end, mass produced skis.